The California artist Thundercat (real name Stephen Bruner) will tour in 2022 to support his 2020 album “It is what it is”. The original 2020 tour, like so many others, was cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. Thundercat will perform three dates in the UK in March and April, and then plans to move into mainland Europe and playing gigs in Amsterdam, Paris, Antwerp, and Berlin. The UK leg of the tour will kick off in Glasgow, before travelling to Manchester and the Brixton O2 in London.
“It is what it is” is the artist’s fourth studio album, and hit the shelves on April 3rd 2020. The album was well received, winning Best Progressive R&B album at the Grammies, and it features Childish Gambino, Lil B, Zack Fox and several others. The lyrics have Thundercat’s characteristic humour, but the work deals with themes of grief and loss as the music was heavily influenced by the loss of Mac Miller, who was a close friend of the artist.
In an interview with NPR in 2020, Thundercat spoke about looking forward to playing live again in the future: “The act of being together and playing live is such a specific thing. I think that this will make those moments even more special when everybody gets a chance to do it, because we realize that it could be taken away from us at any given time. But there’s nothing that makes up for it, in my mind, actually being able to play live and go on tour and make music with friends.”
Despite being unable to tour throughout the pandemic, Thundercat has kept busy in the music world, working on a couple of collaborations. Earlier in 2021 the artists worked with Haim on a song for the expanded edition of ‘Women in music, pt III”, their 2020 album. He also worked with long-time collaborator Flying Lotus on the track “Black Gold” in April.
You can buy tickets to see Thundercat on tour next year here.
Tour dates
29.03.22 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
01.04 – Manchester Academy, Manchester
03.04 – O2 Academy Brixton, London
04.04 – Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
05.04 – Melkweg, Amsterdam, NL
06.04 – Élysée Montmartre, Paris, FR
09.04 – De Roma, Antwerp, BE
10.04 – Astra, Berlin, DE
